OBAMA menghantar SEHINGGA 300 PENASIHAT Ketenteraan ke IRAQ

U.S. President Barack Obama (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

Srikandi גבורה - Presiden Barack Obama berkata hari Khamis bahawa sehingga 300 kakitangan tambahan tentera Amerika akan menuju ke Iraq & mengambil alih peranan sebagai penasihat terdapat di tengah2 pemberontakan berkembang yang mengancam kerajaan pusat republik itu.

Bercakap dari White House, Pres. Obama berkata penempatan baru yang dimaksudkan "untuk menilai bagaimana kita boleh kereta api terbaik, menasihati dan menyokong pasukan keselamatan Iraq masa depan."

Pengumuman terkini datang hanya hari selepas Pres. Obama berkata awal minggu ini bahawa beliau telah menghantar 275 tentera bersenjata ke Baghdad sebagai langkah keselamatan selepas militan Islam mengambil masa dua bandar-bandar utama lain di rantau ini oleh ribut dalam masa beberapa hari sahaja.

Pada hari Khamis, bagaimanapun, presiden itu mengulangi bahawa tentera Amerika Syarikat tidak akan mengambil alih peranan pertempuran di Iraq, walaupun Pentagon bersedia untuk mengambil "yang disediakan dan sasaran" tindakan ketenteraan di luar negara jika perlu.

Baghdad telah meminta Washington untuk memberikan serangan udara, pengerusi Ketua Turus Bersama berkata pada hari Rabu minggu ini, tetapi Amerika Syarikat belum lagi menggunakan kekerasan di Iraq walaupun krisis cepat meningkat. Sebagai RT dilaporkan sebelum ini, kekurangan tindakan di pihak Pentagon telah dikaitkan sekurang-kurangnya sebahagian kpd ketidakmampuan masyarakat perisikan Amerika Syarikat setakat ini mengumpul maklumat yang mencukupi mengenai misi yang dilancarkan oleh Negara Islam di Iraq dan Levant (ISIL) militan.

Yang tidak lama lagi boleh berubah, bagaimanapun, selepas Obama Khamis bahawa Amerika Syarikat telah meningkatkan aset pengawasan, peninjauan dan perisikan dengan ketara di Iraq, yang akan "Beri kami pemahaman yang lebih besar daripada apa yang ISIL lakukan."

Awal minggu ini, ia telah melaporkan bahawa F-18 pesawat pengawasan ‘F-18 surveillance aircraft’ telah menerbangkan lebih rantau ini dan sedang berlabuh di sebuah kapal induk di Teluk Parsi.

Walau apa pun peranan Amerika dalam konflik setakat ini, Obama sekali lagi menggesa para pemimpin Iraq pada hari Khamis untuk menyelesaikan perbezaan mereka secara diplomatik dan "bangkit di atas perbezaan mereka dan datang bersama-sama di seluruh rancangan politik."

"Tentera memerangi Amerika tidak akan berjuang di Iraq sekali lagi," kata Obama, menambah kemudian bahawa "Akhirnya ini adalah sesuatu yg akan perlu diselesaikan dengan rakyat Iraq," termasuk khususnya Perdana Menteri Nouri al-Maliki.

Bercakap Maliki, Obama berkata tidak kira "sama ada dia adalah perdana menteri atau mana-mana pemimpin lain bercita-cita untuk memimpin negara ini," kerajaan pusat Iraq mestilah menerima pakai agenda di mana "Sunni, Shiaand Kurd semua merasa bahawa mereka mempunyai peluang untuk memajukan kepentingan mereka melalui proses politik.

"Sebelum ini, beberapa pegawai-pegawai di kedua-dua Amerika Syarikat dan Iraq tersirat pentadbiran Obama telah mengambil berat ‘concerned’ tentang pengendalian Maliki keadaan di negaranya, dan bahawa mereka akan mengalu-alukan peletakan jawatan Perdana Menteri.

"Ia bukan tugas kami utk memilih pemimpin Iraq," terus Obama. "Sebahagian daripada apa yang prajurit kita berjuang untuk semasa tahun yang dalam Iraq adalah hak dan peluang bagi rakyat Iraq untuk menentukan nasib mereka sendiri dan memilih pemimpin mereka sendiri.

Tetapi saya tidak fikir bahawa ada apa-apa rahsia, sekarang sekurang-kurangnya, terdapat pembahagian yang mendalam di antara Sunni, Shiaand pemimpin Kurdish."

OBAMA Sending up to 300 military ADVISERs to IRAQ . . .

President Barack Obama said Thursday that up to 300 additional American military personnel will head to Iraq and assume an advisory role there amidst a growing insurgency that’s threatened the republic’s central government.

Speaking from the White House, Pres. Obama said the new deployment is meant “to assess how we can best train, advise and support Iraqi security forces going forward.”

The latest announcement comes only days after Pres. Obama said earlier this week that he was sending 275 armed troops to Baghdad as a security precaution after Islamic militants took two other major cities in the region by storm in a matter of only days.

On Thursday, however, the president reiterated that no US troops will assume combat roles in Iraq, although the Pentagon is ready to take “prepared and targeted” military action overseas if necessary.

Baghdad has already asked Washington to provide air strikes, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Wednesday this week, but the US has not yet used force in Iraq despite a quickly escalating crisis. As RT reported previously, a lack of action on the Pentagon’s part has been attributed at least in part to the US intelligence community’s inability thus far gather sufficient details concerning the missions being waged by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.

That could soon change, however, after Obama said Thursday that the US has significantly increased its surveillance, reconnaissance and intelligence assets in Iraq, which will “Give us a greater understanding of what ISIL is doing.” Earlier this week, it was reported that F-18 surveillance aircraft had already flown over the region and were being docked on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf.

Notwithstanding America’s role in the conflict thus far, Obama again urged Iraqi leaders on Thursday to resolve their difference diplomatically and “rise above their differences and come together around a political plan.”

“American combat troops are not going to be fighting in Iraq again,” Obama said, adding later that “Ultimately this is something that is going to have to be solved by the Iraqis,” including in particular Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki.

Speaking of Maliki, Obama said regardless of “whether he is prime minister or any other leader aspires to lead the country,” Iraq’s central government must adopt an agenda in which “Sunni, Shiaand Kurds all feel that they have the opportunity to advance their interests through the political process.” Earlier, multiple officials in both the US and Iraq implied the Obama administration has been concerned about Maliki’s handling of the situation in his country, and that they’d welcome the prime minister’s resignation.

“It’s not our job to choose Iraq’s leaders,” Obama continued. “Part of what our patriots fought for during may years in Iraq was the right and the opportunity for Iraqis to determine their own destiny and chose their own leaders. But I don’t think that there’s any secret that, right now at least, there is deep division between Sunni, Shiaand Kurdish leaders.”

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